Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Watson Industries Inc.

Harwick, PA · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watson Industries Inc. runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Watson Industries Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watson Industries Inc. safety composite

Watson Industries Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Watson Industries Inc.: 4.2 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.12× in 2020

Watson Industries Inc.'s TCR rose 7.6 from 4.2 in 2016 to 11.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Harwick, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 11.9 DART
  • RANK #35/40
  • PHOTO Bona US
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bona US (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watson Industries Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Watson Industries Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Watson Industries Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=2.2 · 2020=11.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Watson Industries Inc. falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 40 Industrial product finishes an employers in Pennsylvania.

Watson Industries Inc. (87 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Watson Industries Inc.
Watson Industries Inc. (87 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Watson Industries Inc. has more employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 11.9 11.9 4 0 0
2018 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 4 0 0
2016 4.2 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · PA · Harwick

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Bona US 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americoats 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lanco & Harris Corp. - Orlando Plant 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheboygan Paint Company - WI 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adams County Nursery Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handwerk Site Contractors 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1400 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE David M. Maines Associates, Inc. 87 FTE
NAT-TCR Campbell Redi-Mix 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Augustana Oakview Moose Lake 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Roofing, INC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 15 Progress Drive 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Daubert Cromwell, LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gabriel Performance Products 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSC,Inc. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga Marriott 87 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.